- Jelly - Prisoner: I'm gonna tell you something. Look over here. See this fella over here sitting next to the pretty little lady. Now look at him close. Sneaky looking. Got eyes like a real killer.
- Sheriff Conlon: You carrying a gun?
- Ralph Turner: No.
- Sheriff Conlon: Well, I'd like to see what's making that bulge under your coat just the same.
- Lydia Turner: My husband was an officer in the Army. He doesn't have to submit to this.
- Sheriff Conlon: Open your coat! Slow!
- [the tension is palpable until the bottle of whiskey is revealed]
- Paladin: [First lines] You say the innocent among you go free. Is that it, China? A murderer, an adulteress, an embezzler, and a cutthroat. Where do I look for innocence?
- Solomon - Bandit: Such an exchange, nobody wins.
- Paladin: Nobody? Nobody but buzzards, and the magpie.
- Solomon - Bandit: Si! Always in the air, it is them, huh?
- Paladin: For you too, Solomon. And for me.
- Solomon - Bandit: Eee! When I first see you, I have a smell for you. You and me compadre? We have the same bad dreams.